We caught up with, defending champions, The Royal School Armagh in their opening Superleague match where they hosted Portadown College at their new pitch at College Hill on Wednesday afternoon.
Both teams appeared to be up for this one with Armagh forcing an early penalty corner before Portadown broke downfield for Emily Adamson to fire in from a tight ange to open the scoring.
The Royal School looked unfazed with this early setback and they methodically worked their way into the game. However, despite Armagh creating a few more penalty corner chances, the motivated Portadown defence coped well with the pressure and the visitors continued to look dangerous on the counter with Adamson leading the charge.
There were a few personal battles across the pitch between . . .
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